A survey was conducted in Jury 2010 to explore the creation of private health care businesses in Mbuji Mayi, the capital city of the Eastern Kasai Province (EKP), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The survey yielded ...

Cultural competency education has become increasingly important in health care education in order
to treat patients in a nation of diversity. A standardized way of introducing cultural competency material and testing ...

This study examines the utility of systematically accounting for acceptable physician variations in guideline application. The results argue against assuming that even seemingly noncontentious guideline protocol offer a ...

The primary objective of this study was to determine whether an inverse relationship between age and the intensity of care prevailed in an elderly, functionally impaired population enrolled in a managed care organization. ...

To examine whether online curricula were appropriate for physician assistant (PA) programs,
one PA program piloted an online curriculum for courses in endocrinology and community
health with two groups of 42 students ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate an intervention intended to make an impact in heightening the cultural training of health care-focused high school and physician assistant (PA) students, increasing the ...

The risk of developing coronary
artery disease (CAD) for both men and women is increasing
in society today. Over the past twenty-five years, the
concepts of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
(PTCA) and ...

The nature of the relationship between the primary care PA and the
specialist physician has not been well studied. It is apparent that although the majority of specialist
physicians accept referrals from PAs and are ...

Referral of a patient from a primary care provider to a referral specialist physician for consultation is an important link in the continuum of patient care. Although the relationship between the physician assistant (PA) ...

Various barriers to specialty referrals that are initiated by physician assistants (PAs) have been reported to limit a PA's ability to care for patients effectively when they have a medical problem that requires specialty ...